Could your Fitbit data be used to deny you health insurance?

Feb 17, 2017 02:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Law Technology

Wearing a fitness tracking device could earn you cash from your health insurance company. At first, this sounds lucrative for the people who participate, and good for the companies, who want healthier insurance customers....

Would you resort to bribery? Studies show many would

Feb 16, 2017 08:05 am UTC| Law

its notoriously difficult to gauge how often people are willing to offer someone a bribe to get what they want. A 2007 survey suggested that across a range of industrialised countries, two per cent of the public had...

Digital Currency Revolution

What if SEC approves any of the Bitcoin ETFs? The glimpse over anomalies of digital currency regulations

Feb 16, 2017 07:05 am UTC| Digital Currency Insights & Views Law

Winklevoss Capital Management LLC, launched the Winklevoss Investment Trust, the first proposed bitcoin ETF more than three years ago. Consequently, as a matter of regulatory framework, the trusthad filed to trade on the...

Climate Change Series

Are fossil fuel companies telling investors enough about the risks of climate change?

Feb 16, 2017 06:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, there was a push to require oil and gas companies to inform their investors about the risks of climate change. As governments step up efforts to regulate carbon emissions, the...

Rental insecurity: why fixed long-term leases aren't the answer

Feb 16, 2017 06:09 am UTC| Real Estate Law

The insecurity of rental housing and unsatisfactory condition of many properties are receiving much-deserved media attention following the release of a national survey of tenants. However, the stock response to the...

Why there is such an enormous demand for drugs in UK prisons

Feb 15, 2017 08:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

The BBCs Panorama documentary on HMP Northumberland recently put the problem of drug taking in prisons firmly under the spotlight. The terrible harms that psychoactive drugs create for both prisoners and prison officers...

Why the government should tax unhealthy foods and subsidise nutritious ones

Feb 15, 2017 07:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law

In an Australian study published today, we show that if the government were to combine taxes and subsidies on a range of foods and beverages, it could substantially improve the health of Australians and potentially free up...